A Good Preschool Teacher's Role

I believe that early childhood educators play an important role in children’s life. A good teacher is more likely to shape children’s behaviors, attitudes and cognitive development. My dream is to be a successful preschool teacher. However, what the good teacher is.

IN MY OPINION:

Teachers should treat children like children. I am extremely serious on this point. Nowadays, we often unconsciously lapse into the different thinking that regards them as adults. If you do not believe that your thoughts sometimes like that way, you could consider about the following questions. Do you expect young children to be able to know what we are thinking? Do you look forward that their behaviors could be polite as we do? If your answer is yes, you will need to pay more attention on it because children’s cognitive skills are different from us, we cannot impose our thoughts on children.

Teachers should respect children and follow their pace of learning. Children have their own learning pace. Teacher cannot follow our own learning pace to treat them. We should know that children are not able to learn lots of skills all at once. They need step by step process to learn new skills. For example, tying shoes, button clothes, and cutting fruits are very easy for us, but children need more time to master these skills through their practicing. We need to wait and give them time to learn and to master. Helping kids to complete these seemed like simply work for us was not good for their development motor skills.

How to Deal with Children's Misbehavior?

When I was a little girl, my parents hope me to be superior to other children. They hoped to shape my behavior and personal quality as similar as their imaging. They set a serious of rules for me like be respect, be polite, be kind, and be clean. One day, my mother’s good friend invited us to her home. I was excited when she gave me a box of candies. I reached into the box and took a handful of candies in my hand. Suddenly, my father was angry with me and seriously told me just took one candy from the box. I refused and then my father considered I lose his face because my impolite behavior. He spanked me in the presence of aunt. My parents believed that punishment can correct my misbehavior.

Punishment hurt children’s heart, so every parent need to pay attention on their parenting way, especially managing children’s unfriendly or destructive behavior. How to deal with children’s misbehavior? There are many tips in Dealing with Children's Misbehavior.

- Remind your child of your love often. Love begets love.

- Give some space to your child but give the limits for the child' rude and destructive behavior.

- Know if the behavior was done on purpose and teach the child the harm of the action done unintentionally. Getting angry for something done unintentionally can make a child rebellious.

- Control your temper when dealing with a misbehaving child. If you get angry for an act done by your child out of resentment, you will just be completing a cycle of anger.

- Let your child recover from misbehavior. Time out in the bedroom will give your child time to think of the wrong actions done.

- Be firm with the punishments you give your child.

- Build a routine for your child that can make the child behave in a stable and secured manner.

- Give some breaks in the routine of the child, allow fun and enjoyment.

- Set the limits of the child firmly. Ask your child to agree on some consequences when the limit is   crossed.

Useful website: Correct Children's Behavior

Have Fun to Make Birthday Cake

When I was a child, I imaged that my mom could make or buy a beautiful birthday cake for me. This cake should make me feel special, but all of cakes my mom bought were different from my expectation. Therefore, I hope one day I can make special cakes for my child and my students.

There are many magic ideas on Incredible Birthday Cake Ideas. The one I like best is Purse Birthday Cake. I think every girl loves this cute cake. Do you want to make it ? Now, let's start to make it with Karen.

                                 From Sweet! Purse Birthday Cake

Ingredients:

• 2 (8-inch) round cakes
• 1 can (16 oz) vanilla frosting
• Red food coloring
• 1 Tootsie Roll Giant (2.25 oz)
• 10 brown M&M's
• 8 to 9 marshmallows
• 6 Whoppers
• 1 sheet green fruit leather
• 2 Tootsie Rolls

What you'll need:

• A bread knife
• A resealable sandwich-size plastic bag (Ziploc)
• A serving platter
• Scissors or a small letter-shaped cookie cutter

Trimming the cakes:

1. Place the cakes on a clean work surface. Using a bread knife, trim the tops to make them level. 
2. Spread a small amount of frosting on one cut surface. Place the other cake layer on top, cut side down and sandwich the cakes together. 
3. Cut a 1-inch strip from one side of the layer cake. Cut a 2-inch deep slice from the opposite edge (see template).

For the pink frosting:

1. Spoon 1/4 cup of the untinted vanilla frosting into a resealable plastic bag. 
2. Add a few drops of red food coloring to the remaining frosting to tint it a light pink. 
3. Place the cake on a serving platter, deeper-cut side down. Spread the pink frosting all over the cake and make smooth.

                                                            From Sweet! Purse Birthday Cake

To complete the decoration:

1. Snip a small corner from the bag with the vanilla frosting. Pipe dots along each thin side of the cake and attach the brown M&M's.
2. Bend the Tootsie Roll Giant into a "C" shape to make the handle and place on the top of the cake.
3. Cut the marshmallows with clean scissors, crosswise, into 4 slices. Arrange the marshmallows as flower petals along the top of the cake, adding some vanilla frosting to help secure them to the cake. Attach the Whoppers to the center of each flower with a dot of frosting. Cut small leaf shapes from the green fruit leather and tuck them underneath the marshmallow petals as leaves.
4. Heat the 2 Tootsie Rolls in the microwave for 2 to 3 seconds to soften. Roll out onto a sheet of wax paper and cut out desired letter using clean scissors or a small cookie cutter. Press the letter onto the front of the cake
Useful Blog:The Birthday Bolg

Bill Cosby---Parenting

Through seeing Bill Cosby’s Himself, I think parenting is important for every parent. For them, first being parents are the most amazing time in their lives. However, when their child gradually grows up, they start to believe their child is annoying and have brain damage. The main reason makes children like this because of their mother’s curse. Curse can bring anxiety, fear and pressure to children. Therefore, I understand whatever your child whether has brain damage or not, parents should not curse them. They need to be still and listen. Also, gently tell and explain to them what and why they need to do like this way. The most significant learning me achieved is using effective communication way instead of curse because this cannot deal with problems fundamentally, but bring some other troubles.

Frequently using the word "Good" is not good!

 

"You have done your breakfast, good girl."
"Sweetie, this is a good book for you."
"Your painting is good."
"Good job!"

Do you use the word "good" more frequently at home?

In fact, using different kinds of words, phrases, and sentences to communicate with young children are useful for their language development because they obtain language by observing and imitating adults. Not using diverse forms of speaking may have negative impact on children’s language expression. When you use the word "good" to respond to your child's behavior, they often feel confused because they do not know why they are good. So, we should use specific expression when you want to praise children’s behavior or skills. This way can make them clearly understand what appropriate ways or creative skills they use. For example, you have used many beautiful colors for your painting instead of your painting is good. Developing creative words of adults is not a neglectful part during child language development. Are you ready to change your words?

Gay/ Lesbian Partners should not adopt a child???

Is that gay/ lesbian couples should not adopt a child?

This is an interesting question for me to think about.

Here’s an analyzing from the video Having Gay Parents Is Weird

The teacher was very happy to talk about the story of two daddies and two mommies. She hoped all the children could love this book. It seems that she could accept a child with gay /lesbian parents and considered that homosexual parents could be good parents, but when she finished reading, she dropped the book into the trash can. Besides, when she was telling the book title for the class, all the children showed weird expression. What happened next? The child felt uncomfortable that two daddies see him to go to school and two mommies give him good night kisses. He was freaked out by the idea of having two mothers or two fathers and thought that he just could accept one daddy and one mommy in a family. In conclusion, this video implyed that same-sex couples should not adopt a child.

From fornewmoms.com

In my opinion, foster children need loving parents and stable homes. These are the most important parts for them, rather than choosing the gender of their parents. So, if two daddies see you to go to school and two mommies give you good night kisses, the child will feel happy because daddies or mommies express their love to you.

                                                  From thewillsadopt.wordpress.com

In our society, a number of children are waiting for adoption. Therefore, as long as you love children and have a stable home, both straight and homosexual couples have right to adopt them.

Bed-Wetting is not Children's Fault

I remind my cousin who was wetting the bed before eight years old almost every night. His father was angry with his wetting behavior and thought he was too lazy to get up to go to the bathroom. My uncle often rebuked him after he was wetting the bed because he believed my cousin’s bed-wetting made him lose face in our family. However, no one took my cousin to the hospital since they all considered the reason of enuresis was laziness. In fact, that is not my cousin’s fault. Bed- wetting have several behavioral and physiological causes, for example lack a hormone and bladder capacity is small. Also, this behavior could be inhibited by children’s family members. In addition, we need to make sure whether the child has urinary tract infections or not. So, we should encourage our children and built confidence for them rather than blame them.

How can we help our children who wet the bed? Bedwetting offers five ways to help children prevent bed-wetting.

· Limiting liquids before bedtime

· Encouraging the child to go to the bathroom before bedtime

· Praising the child on dry mornings

· Avoiding punishments

· Waking the child during the night to empty their bladder